Cabinet expansion on Oct 3: Siddaramaiah
Badami, September 28: CLP leader and coalition government coordination committee chairman Siddaramaiah said that the Cabinet expansion for the vacant posts in the coalition government and the appointment to the boards and corporations would be held on October 3.
Speaking to reporters at his home office here on Friday, Siddaramaiah said that the coalition government would be safe even after Cabinet expansion as there were no problems. The number of aspirants for the ministerial berths was more and it could not be possible to make all of them as ministers. Around 20 MLAs would be appointed as chairmen to boards and corporations, he said.
No one had won and no one was defeated in the Supreme Court order on Ayodhya issue. Both the parties were happy and they have welcomed the verdict. But the RSS people have been trying to ignite fire into the issue, he said and expressed his happiness over the election of Congress and JDS candidates as BBMP mayor and deputy mayor respectively.
In the last three terms, the Congress-JDS coalition had the power in the BBMP and this time also, they had the confidence of winning the election and won it now. In future also, they would rule the BBMP, he said.
Siddaramaiah also welcomed the Supreme Court verdict of allowing women into Sabarimala temple.
Grievances submitted
Two women of the same family submitted grievances to Siddaramaiah saying that they were poor and living in a thatched hut. They have only one acre of land, but have Rs 13 lakh loan. They were not finding any way to repay it. Kanakadasa Cooperative Bank officials have been torturing them to repay the loan, they said.
But Kanakadasa Cooperative Bank President Dr. Devaraj Patil said that the father of those ladies has got Rs 7 lakh loan from the bank and so far, it was not repaid. Bank employees have asked them to repay the loan and didn’t tortured them, he clarified.
Many others submitted their grievances to Siddaramaiah who directed the officials to respond to those who are in trouble.
Former MLA B.B. Chimmanakatti, S/G Nanjaiah Mata and others were present.
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Jharkhand horror: Man kills live-in partner, chops body into 40 pieces
Ranchi (PTI): A 25-year-old man, who works as a butcher, allegedly strangled to death his live-in partner and chopped her body into 40 to 50 pieces in a forested area in Jharkhand’s Khunti district, police said on Wednesday.
The accused, identified as Naresh Bhengra, was arrested.
The matter came to light after around a fortnight after the killing when a stray dog was found with human body parts near Jordag village in Jariagarh police station on November 24.
Bhengra was in a live-in relationship with the deceased, a 24-year-old woman also from Khunti district, in Tamil Nadu for the past couple of years. Sometime back, he returned to Jharkhand, got married to another woman without telling his partner anything and went back to the southern state without his wife to join her.
"The brutal incident occurred on November 8 when they reached Khunti as the accused who had married another woman did not wish to take her home. Instead, he took her to a forest near his house at Jordag village in Jariagarh police station and chopped the body into pieces. The man has been arrested," Khunti Superintendent of Police Aman Kumar told PTI.
Inspector Ashok Singh who investigated the case said the man worked in a butcher shop in Tamil Nadu and was expert in slicing chicken.
“He admitted chopping the body parts of the woman into 40 to 50 pieces before leaving those in the forest for wild animals to feast on. The police recovered several parts on November 24 after a dog in the area was seen with a hand," Singh told PTI.
Singh said that the woman, who was unaware of his marriage, pressured him to return to Khunti. After reaching Ranchi, they boarded a train on November 24 and headed to the man's village.
"Under a plan, the man took her to Khunti in an autorickshaw near his home and asked her to wait. He returned with sharp weapons and strangulated her with her dupatta after raping her. He then cut the body into 40 to 50 pieces and left for his home to live with his wife," Singh said.
The woman, however, had informed her mother that she had boarded a train and would be living with her partner, the police officer said.
Following the recovery of body parts, a bag was also found in the forest with the murdered woman's belongings including her Aadhaar card. The mother of the woman was called at the spot and she identified her daughter's belongings.
"The mother suspected the man behind the crime who after being nabbed by the police admitted to chopping the woman into pieces," the official added.
The incident has sent shockwaves among people in the region, with the Shraddha Walker murder case of 2022 still fresh in their memory.
Walker was killed by her live-in partner who chopped her body into pieces before dumping them in the jungle in South Delhi’s Mehrauli.
